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Vaccine inequity undermining global economic recovery
New Global Dashboard on COVID-19 Vaccine Equity finds low-income countries would add $38 billion to their GDP forecast for 2021 if they had the same vaccination rate as high income countries. Global…
Equator Prize 2021 honors trailblazing Indigenous and local solutions for people and planet
Equator Prize winners demonstrate the benefits of placing Indigenous and local communities’ knowledge and practices of nature-based solutions at the heart of local development. At a time when we are…
Purpose-driven companies and the regulation of the Fourth Sector in Latin America
This document aims to contribute to the systematization of knowledge about purpose-driven companies worldwide and to the consolidation of a legal framework to boost their positive impact in…
“Purpose-driven Companies” have more and more legislative support in Ibero-American countries, according to an investigation by SEGIB, UNDP and IDRC
The research highlights the legal figure of the Benefit and Collective Interest Societies as an innovative instrument in Latin America, and points out that three countries already have approved…
Second bond issuance of 1,250 million euros to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals in Mexico
Mexico issues for the second time a bond linked to the SDGs with the support of UNDP.
Celebrating Pride, inclusion and diversity all year long
Pride month is an opportunity to bring the LGBTI community together and to honour the history of the movement. It is the occasion to celebrate what has been achieved and to demand what is yet to be…
Clearing the air: combatting information pollution to strengthen COVID-19 responses in Latin America and the Caribbean
To better understand the scale and nature of this challenge in Latin America and the Caribbean, UNDP commissioned a social and digital media research study that analyzed the public digital sphere in…
Business and Human Rights: Essential For A Better Future
The pandemic was and still is a disaster for many businesses. Yet, it could also be a momentum to reshape state-business partnerships and to encourage companies to act respecting human rights, to…
Regional Human Development Report 2021 | Trapped: High Inequality and Low Growth in Latin America and the Caribbean
Latin America and the Caribbean is a region of great contrasts, where wealth and prosperity coexist with vulnerability and extreme poverty. The list of contrasts is long and familiar. The region is…
Trapped: High Inequality and Low Growth in Latin America and the Caribbean
The report explores critical factors that underlie the mutual reproduction of high inequality and low growth: concentration of power, violence all its forms -political, criminal and social-, and…
